Mental Health Awareness

Steve Francis gets real: “The truth is, I've dealt with depression. I’ve dealt with anxiety. I’ve tried to solve my problems with the bottle.”

On our very first episode of Blindsided, we welcome Clint Malarchuk.

Colin Wilson opens up: “When I shared my story here last year, I was holding something back.”

As Black women, there’s so much pressure on us to be everything to everyone.

I needed to figure out who I was and who I wanted to be.

Sometimes I feel like no matter what I say next, it’s impossible for people to understand how I really feel.

Kevin Love continues his work in mental health advocacy by joining psychologist Dr. Michelle Craske and UCLA student athletes for a mental health discussion.

Mental health, and what we know about it, is evolving and so must the ways we treat it.

We all have certain mental health issues in some way, shape or form.

Men have to change our value structures. We have to rid ourselves of toxic masculinity. 

Mental health is a journey. It’s not a game that you either win or lose.

There are days when I don’t want to get out of bed. That’s just the truth. And that’s why I wrote this.

I basically want to do whatever I can to make sure that my life doesn’t end.

Asking for help doesn’t make you any less of a “man.”

Putting your thoughts — your darkest, most brutal ones — into words is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do.

Don’t worry about what anybody says. Don’t worry about how your boys react to it, or about what people got to say about it on social media.

At the depths of your depression, something strange and beautiful will happen.

I took a DNP-Rest….. but here’s the truth of what it should have said.

Two-time Stanley Cup champion Daniel Carcillo and UFC champion Cris Cyborg sit down to discuss the life-threatening impact of a career spent fighting.

"Every single kid should be equipped with a basic knowledge about anxiety, depression, OCD and other mental health issues."

I don’t want to die. But, you know, nothing is for certain. And I’m tired of keeping quiet. So for whatever it’s worth … here goes.

I would give back all my money, I would give back all the time. You can take my name off the Stanley Cup twice over. I can’t live like that anymore. I just can’

I was living in darkness. That’s the only way I can describe it. Pure darkness. Like nothing good could possibly happen in my life.

It was my second day in the mental institution, and I was suffering from paranoid delusions. All of a sudden, the nurse came into my room and told me that I had